Phytolith and Starch Research in the Australian-Pacific-Asian Regions: The State of the Art: Papers from a Conference Held at the Anu, August 2001, Canberra, Australia
Phytolith and Starch Research in the Australian-Pacific-Asian Regions: The State of the Art: Papers from a Conference Held at the Anu, August 2001, Canberra, Australia
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Fine. 200 pp., illustrations, maps, bibliography. This book publishes the refereed papers from a conference held at The Australian National University in Canberra, 2001. In recent years, phytoliths, with their high potential for long-term preservation, and starch grains, fo und in archaeological sediments and residues with the potential to provide taxonomic identifications for a range of important economic plant species, are microfossils that have increasingly been the focus of Quaternary scientists. This volume reports new results and work in progress relating to the application of starch and phytolith analyses in archaeological, sedimentological and palaeoenvironmental contexts across a broad geographical region in the southern hemisphere. These papers will be of interest to those actively involved in similar microfossil research, as well as to general researchers in the fields of archaeology, ethnobotany, Quaternary studies and pedology wishing to keep up to date with developments in these emerging fields or who might have reason to incorporate such studies in future multi-disciplinary projects.